Since you are almost never reachable in your office, and are not willing to meet with us, and it seems that you constantly go on vacation, I wanted to contact you in this open/public letter.

Of all the employees of your social services it was just you who could make a personal, stable, and consistent image of our children in the last decade.

To this day I remember our call after the conversation in the Ministry of Culture in 2013. You seemed to have been very offended back then by the situation in the Ministry of Culture, which came up with the Twelve Tribes. Even with your subsequent visit to Kosterzimmern you have expressed this to me personally.

I think that this must have been the trigger for you, which caused your further actions.

That’s why I want you to remind you of some facts and express my heart to you about certain things that have seemed somehow to vanish:

1. Mr. X, school psychologist, mentioned in your presence again and again – and even to our children that the school was the most pleasant place in Klosterzimmern. The children were for him – as you well know – always willing and ready to show him what they had learned. They were eager to show him. All these things were clear in his semi-annual school reports to the Ministry of Culture.

What stood in the Mirror Online (Focus 38/2013): “All have turned a blind eye,” was not consistent with the truth. You know as well as the school authorities that the Mirror Online statement was a lie.

The Bavarian government defended itself against just charges by the minority party in hearings on January 23, 2014! Those charges were false and were known to be false by the officials who had visited us when the Mirror published them. And who spoke up for the unpopular truth against the popular lie? Our Open Letter to the Bavarian Senate correctly anticipated the government’s obvious justification: that many quite satisfactory and even happy visits of school officials, psychologists, and Jugendamt officials – such as yourself – had visited the Community in Klosterzimmern over the years. We did not live in secret!

The truth now speaks for itself: I wanted to submit to you and the public the testimony that my daughter Chassidah has obtained from the public middle school in the facility in which she has lived the last half year.

She has sent this school report as far as I know, to the Higher Regional Court in Munich with the message: “You reap what you sow.” (That is, something was clearly sown in her education at Klosterzimmern!)

Translation:

School Report

for

Chassidah Markeli

Chassidah is a calm and friendly student, who has quickly found her social foothold in the school and classroom. With her class maids she is a popular play and conversation partner. Towards adults she conducts herself mostly in a respectful and reserved manner but she is with increasing confidence finding the the proper way of communicating. When called upon, Chassidah is able to aptly bring thoughtful contributions to the lessons. Noteworthy is especially her thorough manner of working, which is not only shown in her orderly and well structured notes, but also in her beautiful advanced results in art and WtG-class (sewing and knitting). Chassidah is prompt in executing instructions of any kind in sincerity.

Compulsory subjects:

Ethics………………………………………………………….1

Work-Economy-Technic……………………………..4

German………………………………………………………2

Handcraft/textile design……………………………..2

Math……………………………………………………………2

Sport…………………………………………………………..1

English……………………………………………………….2

Music………………………………………………………….2

Physics/Chemistry/Biology…………………………3

Art……………………………………………………………….1

History/Social studies/Geography………………2

The student is being taught according to the curriculum of middle school, adapted to the school’s emphasis on emotional and social development.

Translation:

This is the copy of my half year school report. I actually wanted to bring it to the court hearing.

*You will reap what you sow!

Am I not right?

If our school (Klosterzimmern) was supposedly so bad and our teachers didn`t teach, then why do I have a bunch of grades 1 and 2 and no 6 or 5?

Right now I am one of the best students in my group. If my teachers in Klosterzimmern didn’t put a good foundation in to me, then I wouldn’t have for example grade 2 in Math, but 6. Please open the school in Klosterzimmern again, it was so nice. Please let all the children and me and my brother go home again!!!

with friendly greetings,

Chassidah Markeli

*Basically what the German phrase, “Nothing brings about nothing” means.

If our children have learned in the supplementary school in Klosterzimmern nothing, they could not obtain such results.

2)As Judge Mrs. Roser correctly observed – and how well you know, too – we love our children and our children love us.

Since your Social service is not able to listen to my human voice as a father, I want to personally share with you my suffering as a father, whose children have already been taken half a year.

Your deputy, Mr. Singer, repeatedly speaks to us of some tactics that I – or we – are supposedly applying and tries to figure out what we’re up to with this. I do not think that Mr. Singer understands and can relate to the suffering of a father and a mother that had to watch our son slowly but surely be destroyed by the INTEGRATION PROCESS that the Jugendamt (youth welfare office) intended.

Our son Addar is no longer the same after being in a promotion program for maladjusted youth for a half a year. Mr. Bischoff, his guardian, the educators in the home and the OLG/higher court (court of appeal) confirmed this.

Already after the first six weeks in “youth protection” he has expressed to us parents and the leaders in the home quite clear that he didn’t trust anyone any more.

The reason for this is that he was lied to by social workers in your Jugendamt from the beginning again and again.

The young people Jedidajah Müller, Helez Schüle and Chayah Markeli can confirm that they all experienced the same thing on that gray morning when they were all transported to the District Office to be examined there immediately. Yes, they were assured that in the homes the young people would be able to make calls immediately with their parents, siblings and friends. But this turned out to be the first deliberate deception of the young people.

When they trustingly got in the car and arrived at the home, they spoke to another social worker with the urgent request to be able to make calls to their parents, who casually explained that he can grant only whatever he promised himself, and that now they neither could have telephone contact, nor have permission to go out, but they would now be in the YOUTH PROTECTION… us parents were taught that our boys were more interested in other things like playing football than phone contacts…

We, parents and children, were deliberately lied to about each other in order to alienate us from one another.

Such things, Mr. Kanth, the boys had never seen in their whole life. But at the hands of the Jugendamt, they now have. Surely all this has happened, as you have said many times publicly, “for the sake of the children.”

Your statement, Mr Kanth, had been that our adolescents were allowed to have any contact with each other or with people outside the community.

From this lie, you and your employees have not distanced yourself to this day!

Terrible enough is the truth that your authority over the last six months has done exactly what you accuse us of doing with our children.

You have tried systematically by your actions to destroy human relationships. Relationships between siblings and between parents and children.

Being a believing Christian you should know that you should never drive a wedge between parents and children. It does not create trust when you lie in such a way to a nearly six-year-olds and eight-year-olds. Germany’s highest professionals testify to that.

And that is not all. At the urging of Chayah for more contacts than what was granted to him, only a weekly ten minute phone conversation with his parents, Mr. Bischoff told him then that he could even completely delete his contact if he was not happy with it.

Threats of this kind many of our children had to experience from your employees.
Threats to take away people from them, whom they love and they trust.

Do you not know that threats produce fear and distrust? But of course you do!

HOW CAN THIS BE REPAIRED?

In cases of adolescents and children who escaped in their despair from the (institutional) homes or foster parents and were brought back by force of the authorities, the contact with the parents was the first thing again locked away with the comment: “The children would have to once again “calm down“…”

We parents here in Klosterzimmern have always encouraged our children to respect authority figures like you and Mr. X (school psychologist) and the police. We have taught them that authority is from God and that good authority rewards good and punishes evil. This, you may not know, is the Word of God.

Our children do not understand why they are being punished now by your social services for loving their parents.

The victims are the children.

When my older son, Chayah, because of his majority (turning eighteen) was allowed to leave the home, he asked in the home and also to your social workers, whether it would be possible, with his brother Addar, to continue to remain in the home until he also would be released, because he saw how hard it was for Addar in such an environment, alone, without his help, to cope with the situation. He, and we, were told that this was not possible without additional funding. I know about the pain of my son Chayah, the long nights that he did not come for months to rest, because his brother in the home was doing worse and worse.

I think I might have gained a greater insight than you of what is going on in such a home, because my wife and I have taken every opportunity to encourage our son and to give him a foothold in life.

But even though you have known my sons, you have not visited a single time, to see how they are doing. Yet you had said that you would visit the children of the Twelve Tribes.

Chayah waited for you, in vain…

St. Nikolaus

When we got to the top, the educator told us:

“Oh, it’s so crazy. In the holidays only those youth are left who can not go home because they either do not have parents (foreign refugees) or because their parents do not want them, and Addar is the only one who wants to go home and is not allowed to return home.”

This lets you know that everyone in the home knew what a suffering we parents were going through. I tried to explain to your staff in the district office that these are not legal objects here, but people who need affection and love. But the response from your staff was that I can not talk on a personal level with him, but only on a legal level – through my lawyer.

Do you know Mr. Kanth, that there are two corridors in the home on the healing therapeutic group: one for boys and one for girls. In the night first both hallways get locked, then the door leading to the staircase and then the front door below. The educators leave the group at 10:00 pm and the night watch comes over once – maybe around 12:00 am. You can think for yourself, what is going on there.

We ourselves were young once and did things that were not so edifying. Exactly these things happen then also there. They drink and noisily and rowdily break into each other’s rooms and clear out all its furniture, or even throw it out of the window and other nonsense. Fisticuffs and brawls are very normal.

When the night guards then comes over from another house, everyone jumps into their bed and then they just keep going. In the morning they are completely finished, grumpy and irritable, and show “unbalanced” behavior. I have suffered a lot with this situation because I didn’t have any control over it and no one in the home did, either.My children did not belong in such a home; they have never been lawless youth.Did they have to experience all this?

Did this action of taking our children and subjecting them to such mistreatment really free our children, Mr Kanth?

I am facing the shambles of a soul and I hope that the love I have for my children can make these things right again.

I could tell you the whole night of such situations like this… but even so I don’t have any stones to throw, but these things are true and they may not be denied or twisted.

To be under the peer pressure in such a situation is diabolical and then to come up with psychological advice is as the sand of the desert for a thirsty soul.

Your employees accuse me in court for dramatizing incidents in the home. Here my children have no more confidence in someone who has just lied at them and brought them into this terrible situation and would never entrust them the deep things in their soul. Why would they ever trust those who lied to them?

Reality is that all psychologists, social workers, doctors and lawyers can not replace parents to the children…

yet so many children are suffering because they do not have parents or none who care about them.

Why do you take away those who still have loving parents, to whom nothing is more important than taking care of their children?

3) Finally, I would like to clarify even the slander that has beenspoken about me by you and Mr Singer:

I’m not a cult leader and I have never withheld other families from you, nor has any family ever been mentioned to me in any conversation with you, whom you or your office wanted to talk with personally.

This lie about me has penetrated into the court and is constantly being repeated by you.

WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE YOU MORE THAN ME?

Mr. Singer has said here in Klosterzimmern in front of witnesses, that it had been planned to have a conversation with individual families – but that then everything happened so fast and that is why they couldn‘t talk with the individual families any more.

Why does your office always only make excuses? We are talking about the lives of children here, their souls, which your Jugendamt are shattering.

I have not yet met one who would admit that he did not behave properly.

Your employees want strangely enough that our children should be absolutely obedient to them – and so they threaten to cancel the contacts with their parents if they do not.

By the way, Mrs. Link has claimed that all grandparents would be treated the same in the issue of dealing with the children.

This lie was expressed in the hall of the Jugendamt towards us and my father-in-law, and at least fifteen employees of your office.

This is also something that you can not leave at that. Indeed, it is quite clear that some grandparents are given preference and both Mrs. Link and the other employees of the Jugendamt know about it.

Mr. Quaiser now could not even find out the address of his grandchildren from your office, let alone have phone contact with his grandchildren or even to visit. However, if he were against the community of the Twelve Tribes his road would have been paved already as the other grandparents, where contact was immediately granted.

I could continue the list without end.

Certainly you and your staff think that we are criminals…or why else would you treat us like this?

You, personally, Mr. Kanth, have already known our children almost a generation, and delighted in them. Why do you now not show any more interest in their fate?

When I told Mr. Singer, your colleague, that my two boys were detained recently on a weekend all alone in the corridor, as the group drove to have ice cream in the city, and there was no room in the car for everyone, he did not want to believe me.

Are you so unaware of the conditions of the homes?

To this day letters are being censored by your office.

Where do you actually get the permission from to put aside such fundamental human rights?

The opening scenes were taken shortly before our “abused children” were “rescued” by the Jugendamt. They are doing a skit about the Peacemaker Bus. From the entire video, these many scenes captured in color images, taken by us, relatives, and guests, make your own judgment.

Processes against the Twelve Tribes for 2013/2014:

Sunday, September 01, 2013: Judge of the AG Nördlingen signs twelve identical decisions – removal of custody for all families from Klosterzimmern.

Translation: Arbitrary State Power Germany 2013/2014 The legal processes against the children of the faith community “Twelve Tribes.” Download in German (a 12 page pamphlet with letters from the youth and children and the explicit comparison with another cause of conscience, the White Rose movement in Nazi Germany, 1942-1943).

September 2-3, 2013: Judge of the AG Ansbach signs five identical decisions – loss of custody for all Families in the community in Wörnitz.

September 5, 2013: 6.00 clock in the morning – Synchronous police raid on Klosterzimmern and Wörnitz. All children aged 3 months – 17 3/4 years removed by the police. {Several accounts, see “Behind Closed Doors” for one of them.}

September 5 to 18, 2013: Amtsgericht (AG) Ansbach: A hearing with 5 Families.

September 19, 2013: Argentine child (3 years) is released to his parents custody.

September 23, 2013: loss of custody for the rest of the children remains.

September 18, 2013: Hearings before the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg

September 18 – November 26, 2013: Amtsgericht (AG) Nördlingen: Hearings of all parents and children: The children all want to go home!

September 19, 2013: Two girls escape from foster family, but they are brought back by the police.

October 16, 2013: The two girls flee to Switzerland

October 28, 2013: One teenager comes of age and thus is free. {Chayah Markeli, see the transcript of his video, “A Family Torn Apart” where he talks about his experiences.}

November 8, 2013: The Swiss girls are captured by the Swiss police to the German Jugendamt. They are separated from each other and housed under strict supervision.

November 22, 2013: The 17-year-old Swiss girl is set free. {See Eva’s diary entries, “Diary of an Abused Girl,” for more on the above references to the Swiss girls.}

December 3, 2013: Court resolutions – 3 young people are set free. All the other children remain separated from their parents. {See their thankfulness at being home: “I am extremely thankful to be home,” by Besorah Schott, as well as Yedidiah, Sarah.}

December 4, 2013: A 13-year-old boy who has fled, appears before Munich Higher Regional Court. He wants to go home! The judge orders him sent back into foster care, and the Jugendamt threatens to have him removed by the police, because he did not want to go voluntarily. {See “What Happened to Helez?” for more on this.}

December 9, 2013: 3 nursing children and 4 small schoolchildren are snatched in the early morning by police force from their mothers in the state youth welfare institution Dürrlauingen. {See “Family Friendly County?” for one of the accounts of this infamous raid, which a neighbor called, “beneath contempt.”}

December 18 to February 12, 2014: Hearings before the Higher Regional Court of Munich.

January 16, 2014: Psychological report result – all parents are unfit to educate their children.

January 22, 2014: The refugee youth is released. All the other children are still even against their will in state custody. {See “Helez is back home!” for more on this.}

February 11, 2014: A twelve-year-old girl runs away from foster care to her parents in Klosterzimmern. {See her video transcript: “Nechonah’s Interview” for more on this.}

March 11, 2014: An eleven-year-old girl runs away from the convent to her parents in Klosterzimmern. {Chassidah (her other name is Shifchat-jah) Markeli; see below.}

March 12, 2014: A fifteen-year-old boy (the girl’s brother) is released to his parent’s custody (partially) in Klosterzimmern. {Addar Markeli, see “The Markeli family is together again!“}

Sophie Scholl’s Dream

On the morning of her execution Sophie Scholl had a dream: she carries a child in a white christening gown up a steep hill. Suddenly a crevasse gapes open at her feet. Sophie puts the child on the other side of the abyss…just before she falls into it herself. The child is safe, Sophie is lost.

Judge Roland Freisler

What confidence to face death this dream gave her! Her life and the lives of her friends had not been in vain. The child would live on; as she told her cell mate, Else Gebel, “The baby in the white dress is our idea. It was survive us and succeed despite all pitfalls and obstacles.”*

A few hours later Nazi Judge Roland Freisler in room 216 of the Circuit Court in Munich proclaimed the judgment.

On 22 February 1943, the executioner triggers the guillotine.

Sophie is dead, after not even 22 years on this earth. Her body lies in the abyss, but the vision, the rescued child from the dream survived. The child’s name? FREEDOM.

Carefully Sophie drew these eight large letters (Freiheit) on the back of her indictment. Only decades later, when someone took the Scholl indictment in hand and turned it over, is the silent legacy discovered.

Germany recently celebrated the 71st anniversary of their execution. She had already become the “Woman of the Century.” Much honor to her and her companions – yes, they are due all of it.

But the child FREEDOM, how has she fared? Did she latter fall into the abyss as Sophie did?

Despite her young age Sophie decided to die for her conviction of conscience rather than to cowardly deny the voice of her heart:

I still hold the opinion, that I have done the best that I could do for my people. I therefore do not regret my action and do not want the consequences that result from my actions to be taken from me. ~ Sophie Scholl

On the day of her execution, she spoke of the great worth of their sacrifice – hers and Hans and Christopher Probst – if it succeeded in waking up thousands of others.

Wake them up to what? The knowledge of right and wrong conscience gives!

Read the Leaflets, O Germany! All six of them. They apply more than you think to the country TODAY. Sophie gave up her life; she fought in the hope of arousing the great German people from their moral torpor. Did she? Or did she die in vain?

Torpor, a noun: dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.

Did Sophie Scholl fight in vain?

As it stands today to people like us who have a conviction and cling to it in spite of new laws that go against that deep conviction…it looks very much like she lived and died in vain. Yes, to people like us it seems like Germany has heroes in the White Rose they celebrate but do not imitate. No doubt everyone does, but such praise of the courage of others when one is oneself a coward points directly to a lack of character…like an arrow hitting home.

White Rose Leaflet 4, page 1

In the 4th Leaflet of the White Rose they spoke of parenting, just simple wisdom that all parents knew to be true: ‘He who does not want to hear, must feel.’

Such an opinion no one can hold in our days, because people who do such a thing will be persecuted. We can testify! They will have their children taken from them! Sophie’s child would be taken from her today and thrown into the abyss of foster-care.

Consider the following: the Scholl siblings were executed by our fathers, because they spoke up opposing the war. But if the resistance fighters of the “White Rose” lived today, their children would be taken from them, because those children would be chastened. They would raise them with exactly these consequences: “Who does not hear must feel.”

Nowadays it is believed that children no longer should be chastised. To this foolishness everyone conforms. Thus we see the values and the laws change, but the spirit remains the same.

But God’s Word does not change and neither does the inner law that all men know. It can be suppressed by the laws of men, and called evil, but it is not. It is good to love your child and discipline them for not listening to you. Just ask the White Rose…but would you listen to their answer?

As Sophie Scholl famously put it: ‘The law is changing — not the conscience.’

The laws also changed at that time. The human conscience did not. But only a few stood up at the time. Nobody said anything in 1943 when the siblings Scholls were executed…the vast majority were quiet, just like today.

Are we celebrating the courage of the Scholl siblings rightly, if we watch in silence as those who stand up today are sentenced again? The older generation of Germans who were still raised tightly by their loving parents, do they now stand up for what is right? Do they stand up for what their conscience calls good and true?

Anyone who understands good ethics and morals, how right and wrong must guide one’s choices, knows how children learn these things. They would not condemn us for how we educate our children.

But just like then the majority is silent, although their conscience and their common sense say that a child must be educated with boundaries and consequences.

“Return to the clear moral principles, to the rule of law, the trust of one person to another; this is not illegal, but conversely the production of legality. ~ Kurt Huber”

Professor Kurt Huber, executed for resistance to the Nazi regime.

Another fellow “fighter” of Hans and Sophie Scholl was the Philosphy professor Kurt Huber. On 19 April 1943, in his defense speech before the People’s Court, said: “Return to the clear moral principles, to the rule of law, the trust of one person to another; this is not illegal, but conversely the production of legality.”

He was beheaded on 13 July 1943.

Then it was clear the voice of conscience fell into the abyss of death. Where is it today?

To this day, German compulsory schooling still teaches the most important lesson in life, which is to conform. Just go with it, no matter what your heart tells you – no matter what the wisdom of the older generation teaches – just don’t rock the boat – just don’t get into trouble. Because if you did…

What would people think?

“I consider it a difficult fact that the parents are living in a community of believers, that lives according to the guidelines of the Bible. Therefore it seems difficult to estimate, how much the parents would be able to distance themselves from spanking.” (Excerpt from a court record.)

This fact stands out: at least the court can read the Bible.

At least they are open in their opposition to doing what the Bible says.

Government policy is clearly anti-Biblical.

They only seek to uphold that policy.

They only do their job.

They only obey orders.

Can you, O people of Germany, read the Bible, too? Do you care what it says? Do you agree that those who live according to its guidelines should be outlawed? And should lose their children?

If so, you are like most of those who lived in the days of the “White Rose”. They did nothing. They conformed – they adapted simply, clearly, immediately to whatever was going on. No matter how bad everything was – joining the crowd was the best and the safest that anyone could act. Everyone understood.

So many applauded when Hans and Sophie Scholl were executed. Just as it is today, hardly anyone understands what really happens and conforms – no matter how bad it is in our society. Most applauded when the children of the Twelve Tribes were unlawfully removed by police power from their families.

How many applaud when they run away and come home to those same families?

Testimony of the Scholl Parents

Her father and mother were standing outside the courtroom, boldly and with vision for the future: Magdalene: “Let me in, I am the mother of the two accused.”

Robert and Magdelene Scholl

“Aha, the mother,” replied the guard. “You should have raised them better – taught them better manners.”

Robert Scholl, the father, was escorted forcibly from the courtroom. He left the room with the words: “One day there will be a different kind of justice! One day they will be written down in history.”

Yes, they have gone down in history. They are famous. But what influence did the example of Hans and Sophie Scholl and all the other heroes have on our life? Should we not heed their words? Yes, the message of the White Rose remains:

The law changes. The conscience does not.

That is their legacy to us. Does anyone care? They wanted to arouse people to stand up against injustice. What would Sophie Scholl have to say to the Germany of the day? Praise for the freedoms of conscience and worship and the high regard given the family? Would they stand with the court quoted above. Nay, surely not!!

Would she not say the same thing today the Son of God said to the leaders of His time?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the graves the righteous and say, “If we had to lived the days of our fathers, we would not be with them become guilty of the blood of the prophets! This testifies you from yourselves that you are sons of those who have killed the prophets. Well, well you do it to the measure of your fathers! (Matthew 23.29 to 32)

Sophie Scholl must have known in her heart that there is a Creator who holds her life in His hands.

One thing is certain. One day, everyone will stand before his Creator and be judged on how they obeyed their conscience.

Propaganda

The Jews were back than shown by Hitler as brutal animals, who secretly ate their children. This image excited the disgust of every normal human being and so they were able to subsequently be easily marginalized in society. From there it was a short step to the ghettos. The “Jew lie” made it easy to ignore human rights and paved the way to the concentration camp. And the concentration camp opened the door to the gas chamber.

On September 9, 2013 the RTL reporter managed on the basis of false witnesses and illegal filming to start a smear campaign against the Faith community of the “Twelve Tribes”: ‘RTL discovered child abuse at twelve tribes.’

In the headlines on 5 September 2013 were the dramatic reports of a large police operation where all 40 children of our communities of believerers were taken into state custody. According to Mr. Kanth, head of the Youth Office Donau-Ries, abused, marked children were expected who would be glad to be freed. What was expected was not observed, but no one seemed to notice. And they still don’t.

NEVER has any abuse of the children been discovered. But what does that matter? What does the truth matter today?

If the truth doesn’t matter about us, it doesn’t matter about anyone…as we have found out, and you will too.

Actually, there are numerous medical certificates and psychological evaluations at hand, that testify, that the children have always been well. But no one seems to notice.

A ruler who adheres to lies, all his officials become villains. (Proverbs 29:12 )

The Jugendamt continues to spread lies…

The Jugendamt (Youth Office) and the courts meanwhile continue to spread these allegations. Employees of the responsible Jugendamt unfortunatly didn’t know the individual families before the violent removal, because they NEVER had contacted them personally.

The reports of the school psychologist, who over a period of ten years, creating performance assessments of students in Klosterzimmern, are not regarded. They are ignored. Why is that?

Now after many months of separation of parents and children and rigorous ban on contact, psychologists seek to find out whether the children would be damaged under the education (upbringing) of their parents. They seek to draw conclusions about the past, because they had not been informed previously of the state of the children.

They saw the RTL feature film, in which even the Jugendamt manager has played a part.

Even Dr. Reipen, Government Director of Swabia, refers to the illegally obtained footage as “Evidence” of abuse.

Our children have now separated from their parents for six months on the basis of the allegations. Now that these children are quite traumatized, one finds gradually out that these allegations are not true.

The older children have fled from the homes and returned to their parents and since then partly officially returned. They were six months illegally housed in homes and foster families. They could “credibly assure that they will not be abused.”

But they were never abused…as the school psychologists, the school officials, the Jugendamt even, and the thousands of guests at our Hoffests knew already. Yes, they knew. But who speaks up?

The first public prosecution has now been called off. Meanwhile, the Family Court will now Check “Education suitability” of the parents. One knows from the case Mollath and others that 95% of the time the court-appointed expert always find against the defendants and for their “employer” (the judges). It threatens the final withdrawal of parental custody.

Herr Alfred Kanth (Jugendamtsleiter)

Where now are those who still pretend about “the welfare of children”? Why has the Jugendamt manager never visited the children, whom he has personally known from the Klosterzimmern School, in the last 6 months? Why does he not inquire about, among other things, their well-being? Talk to them — ask them where they want to live — if they are doing all right? Perhaps he is ashamed. Would it be hard for him now to look the children in the eyes, children for the most part that he has known personally for many years?

And why does he not respond to their letters of petition that they want to go home? Or is it simply hard for the officials to admit a mistake? Access to the files the Jugendamt doesn’t want to give to us – probably they have something to hide. Maybe it’s once again more important to look good and “to save one’s own skin” then to have actual, true concern for the welfare of “cult children.”

Is there no one alive any more with moral courage?

* From “A Noble Treason: The Story of the White Rose and the Revolt Against Hitler,” by R. Hansen (Ignatius Press, 2012), p. 245.

Although the Higher Regional Court of Munich found no traces and could confirm no evidence of mistreatment of our daughter Merea, our appeal was rejected. So Merea continues to be held in the children’s home. Now our appeal goes before the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.

Our beloved daughter, Merea.

In Switzerland, we have also reached the Swiss Federal Court, because of the delivery of our daughters Merea and Eva from Switzerland to Germany. The Supreme Court in Bern has rejected our complaint.

Unfortunately the courts are not in a hurry. This is all at the expense of children and of course also of their parents. The situation seems to harden. It’s time to pray, talk, write, act, whatever we can do. Everyone is called to use according to whatever his ability and his talent is. Something has to change, otherwise…

This is what is facing Germany and seemingly Switzerland, and maybe all of Europe.

Once every 14 days we are allowed to visit our daughter Merea. She lives in the Marie Heim, near Augsburg. Four of the Twelve Tribes children are housed here, in two separate groups. The children’s home is actually quite a nice home.

For our children, a prison

However, for our children, it is not a nice children’s home, but a prison, because they are treated like prisoners. The head of the home confirmed that he never had such strict rules for girls. The reason he said is that the children should not be influenced by the parents, which is the direction given by Mr. Singer of the Jugendamt of Donau-Ries.

This is an extreme example of a contact ban. It is the attempt to kill, to destroy, not an individual, which is clearly a crime, but a family: to destroy the relationships that make that small, special group of relatives what they are, a family.

The fact that the children are affected every day by all sorts of people seem to fall into oblivion. The influence of parents, siblings and friends is classified on the basis of our faith in the Bible as dangerous and undesirable. Our faith in God is being outlawed.

At the last visit, as the others, our visit was totally monitored. An educator or Jugendamt assistant guard us every second, so that no word escapes the ear of supervision. This means that our daughter Merea (and all the other children of the Twelve Tribes ), since the taking into care (state kidnapping), can no longer talk openly and be at ease with us, their parents. This has been going on for over six months.

I call that torturing children…the modern way.

Our Children are treated like prisoners of war.

The children are particularly guarded in everyday life. Their letters are opened and read, still, even after 6 months. Letters will not be given to them if they are written in English, even though the children are bilingual and have English-speaking friends or relatives. Also German letters will only be handed over, or read when the writer (eg, the parents) do not affect the child through the mail. One can therefore only superficially write “the weather”. The letters of the children are censored and not given to the children if they are not acceptable…to the Jugendamt (youth department).

The will of our children will be broken and their little souls torn apart. This is the will of the Jugendamt.

It is amazing that the children’s homes, youth protection institutions, and foster parents strictly follow the instructions of the Youth Office, although these directions go against the “dignity of man” and against the rights of privacy in one’s communications, and against the interests of the child.

This blind loyalty to the state is reminiscent of Communist East Germany (the DDR) or Nazi Germany (the Third Reich). “I am only following orders,” everyone can truly say. Their fathers said it before them.

Someone might say, “Yes, but Romans 13 says that state authority is ordained of God and that we must therefore obey the civil authority.” Did not the apostles also have a conflict with the state’s authority long ago? See Acts 5:27-32.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29)

Authority is good, but when a government legislates against the word of God, we must obey our Father more than the government. We (the Twelve Tribes ) are obedient to the government as long as they remain within the limits which God has given them (Romans 13:1-7).

The German government is keeping our children as hostages. It does not give us the opportunity to emigrate with our children in another country .

With kind regards,

David and Barbara Krumbacher

The Krumbacher family in happier times, at home. That’s Merea in the middle.

It’s time that the government wakes up in Germany and protects the rights of its citizens, and stop restricting and taking them away.

The Basic Law must be maintained.

Article 1

( 1) The dignity of man is inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

Article 2

(1 ) Everyone has the right to the free development of his personality…

Article 3

( 1) All persons are equal before the law.

(3 ) No one may be prejudiced or favored because of his sex, his parentage, his race, his language, his homeland and origin, his faith, or his religious or political opinions. No one shall be discriminated against because of his disability.

Article 4

( 1) Freedom of faith and of conscience, and freedom of religious or philosophical creed, shall be inviolable.

( 2) The undisturbed practice of religion shall be guaranteed.

Article 5

( 1) Everyone has the right freely to express his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and distribute and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources.

Article 6

( 1) Marriage and the family shall enjoy the special protection of the state.

( 2) The care and upbringing of children is the natural right of parents and a duty primarily incumbent upon them. Through its operating monitors the state community.

Article 10

( 1) The privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications shall be inviolable.

Article 13

( 1) The home is inviolable.

( 2) Searches may be ordered only by a judge, are placed at risk in delay, by other authorities designated by the laws and carried out only in the form prescribed.

Article 17

Everyone has the right, individually or in writing that in community with other requests or complaints to the competent authorities and to the legislature.

Seized in the Middle of the Night: this describes their seizure in Switzerland (they are Swiss citizens) and their forced return to Germany. This is what our appeal to the Swiss courts have been about.

My daughter, Havah’s (Eva), diary: Diary of an Abused Girl. This concerns her abuse at the hands of the Jugendamt in state custody.

On the expressed Opinion of a government spokesman

The spokeswoman for the district governement of Donau-Ries commented on the disciplinary complaint and the complaint of the parents of the Twelve Tribes against the responsible persons of the Jugendamt (Youth Office) with the words, that the Twelve Tribes are just exploiting all means to retrieve their children.

The reason for the (criminal) charges however, is based on the fact that the runaway children who have returned to their parents, have made incriminating statements regarding their treatment and experiences in the homes, foster homes and institutions, which obviously violated their fundamental human rights.

Violating such basic constitutional rights of any, even unpopular groups such as ours, violates the rights of all. It establishes precedents that governments always continue to act upon: “We did it against the Twelve Tribes, and we can do it against you, too!”

The privacy of correspondence falls under the fundamental rights of a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany.

There is a law that restricts the secrecy of correspondence.

This law authorizes the constitution protection authorities of the Federal and State Governments, the Military Counterintelligence Service and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) under certain circumstances, for the monitoring and recording of telecommunications and the opening and evaluation of the letter or postal secrecy underlying shipments.

As far as we are aware, it has not been any of these authorities has opened the letters from the parents or children of the Twelve Tribes, but officials from the district office. Thus a clear offense in relation to the secrecy of communication of the persons concerned is the case.

Deprivation of liberty:

The offense is in its basic form a misdemeanor with a penalty of up to five years’ imprisonment or a fine. Since 1998 in Germany, the attempt alone is a criminal offense (§ 239 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code).

With § 239 para 3 No 1 StGB a qualification is introduced,which in the case of a detention that lasts longer than a week, calls for an increased penalty of one year up to ten years imprisonment. This qualifies as a crime.

One of the young girls who was forcibly returned to German foster care from Switzerland, where she was living as a Swiss citizen with her grandmother, was kept locked up for over a week in the home.

Obviously, here is a rough violation before in the case of deprivation of liberty. Our intention is not to “exploit all means” – the fundamental rights of the persons concerned have been grossly violated. If we do not have fundamental rights that the government protects, does anyone?

The Basic Law of Germany

The basis of all law appears in each nation’s constitution. Reflecting this, the German Constitution is even called the Basic Law. Is this a name only or a reality? An ornament of beauty but not of substance to the German people?

The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Written in Article 1 of the Basic Law is the following:

1) Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

( 2) The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable Human rights as the basis of each human community, of peace and justice in the world.

( 3) The following basic rights bind the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary as directly applicable Law.

By law, it would be the obligation of public authorities to file charges in such serious disregard of the fundamental laws against those responsible people. Since such criminal offenses are obviously the case here, against us, prosecuting the offenders would be a completely normal procedure. It would safeguard all Germans against the encroachment of government power.

Since this has not happened, we were forced to do so.

The lawsuit which was introduced during this time against some parents of the Twelve Tribes has been assessed and adjusted for lack of evidence. But we do not know who has filed a complaint at the time.

Some people think that the Twelve Tribes oppose the law and to laws simply do not pay attention. Have you ever had such thoughts about the officials of the German district offices? Are they paying attention to the laws they are sworn to uphold?

Do the government officials have other rights than the “little citizens”? Is this in conformance with the principle of equality: “All persons are equal before the law” in Article 3 (1) of the Basic Law?

“No one may be prejudiced or favored because of his sex, his parentage, his race, his language, his homeland and origin, his faith, or his religious or political opinions. No one shall be discriminated against because of his disability.” Article 3 (3) of the Basic Law.

We are being treated in a prejudicial way because of our faith and religious opinions. This is a matter of open public record. To dismiss our case with the statement, “They are exhausting all means simply to get their children back”holds monstrous dangers.

If this arbitrariness of the government will not stop, all citizens of this country will be deprived of one day of their fundamental rights.

The fact that we are dealing here with the special case of a “cult” is a misconception. According to authorities, the children should be protected. Does the protection of a person consist nowadays in depriving him of his basic rights?

Is it not the case here, that the person has to be protected from the state? How can it be that the threshold of fundamental rights violations by government officials has dropped so low? If the individual citizen is not fighting for their basic rights, he will lose them all.

September 5th 2013

Even for a collective child abduction there is no legal basis. But there was no outcry among the population.

Today us – tomorrow you.

All history shows that once a state has tasted powers hitherto forbidden, an appetite is actually created to exercise such power. This appetite proves irresistible. Even German history shows this very vividly.